Personal Study - Journeys.

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Journeys

MUD FOOT CIRCLE, 1985

RICHARD LONG

By Caroline Mackenzie

Contents

* Introduction

* Biographies

* Comparisons with traditional painters

* Primary Source research, questions & responses-

Richard Long

* Evaluation of response

* Research on Richard Long

* My response to the work of Richard Long

* Analysis of Works: Andy Goldsworthy

Richard Long

Robert Smithson

* Comparison using my own work

* Conclusion

* Bibliography

Introduction

I have always liked travelling, exploring different countries and collecting items on the way to keep as a physical memory. This fascination with discovery made me interested in the Serpentine gallery, in Hyde Park, which had an exhibition called 'en route'. It featured the work of twenty-three established and emerging contemporary artists who take the theme of travel as a basis for their art. The human journey, both physical and imagined, is one of the most long-standing themes in art, literature and mythology.

Many artists attracted my attention. One of them was Francis Alys, who travelled on foot and each day of his travels, was under the influence of a different drug. He recorded his experience through photography- 'I will walk in the city over the course of seven days, under the influence of a different drug each day. My trip will be recorded through photographs...' Above is one of his photographs from his series.

Another photographer that I found interesting was Robert Smithson. He put photographs of objects in wild surroundings, such as on a hillside. He would make a photograph within a photograph more obvious by having the photograph of the object in black and white, to contrast with the natural colours of the surroundings.

I liked the style of Robert Smithson's photography so much that I decided to concentrate on 'found objects' and 'journeys' as a theme. I researched other well-known artists/photographers such as Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy, and became very much interested in their work and connection with nature.

Yoko Ono

Map Piece

962 summer

Biographies

Andy Goldsworthy

956 Born in Cheshire, England (raised in Yorkshire and worked at a farm outside of Leeds while he was a teenager. He developed his interest in nature while he was working on the farm.

974 He attended college in Yorkshire at Bradford College of At and Preston Polytechnic, and left in 1978.

978 After College he lived in Yorkshire and began moving north following work and his desire to explore different areas

986 Moved up to Scotland, Penport

Exhibitions- Serpentine Summer Shows, 1,

Gallery, London

'Photographs of Outdoor Work' Altrincham Library,

England

'Evidence' Coracle Press Gallery, London, England

'Rain sun snow hail mist calm' The Henry Moore study of sculpture, Leeds City Art Gallery

'The Barn' Lincoln England

988 Travelled to Japan

Exhibitions- Gallery Takagi, Nagoya, Japan

Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo and Osako, Japan

989 Exhibitions- 'Leaves' The Natural History Museum, London, England

'Andy Goldsworthy' The Rozelle Galleries, Ayr, England

'Snow Balls in summer' Old Museum of Transport, Glasgow, Scotland

'Touching North' Anne Berthaud Gallery, London, Glasgow

990 'Garden Mountain', Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, France.

'Photography as Sculpture', Fotogallery, Cardiff,

Wales; Wigan Education Art Centre, Wigan,

Lancashire, England

1991 'Hand to Earth: Goldworthy Sculpture 1976-1990.

991 'Sand Leaves', Chicago Art Club, Chicago, Illinois.

'Attitudes to Nature', Ile De Vassiviere, France

992 'Mid Winter Muster', Adelaide Festival, Australia.

'Lowther Snowballs', Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium. 'Stone Sky', Galerie St. Anne, Brussels, Belgium. 'California Project', Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California. 'Snow and Ice Drawing and Throws', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. 'Flow of Earth', Exhibition and Granada T.V. Film, England.

993 Winter Muster', Howard House, Yorkshire, England.

Wood Land: Recent Work made in New York,

Illinois. 'Two 'Two Autumns', Tochigi Prefectural

Museum of Fine Arts, Japan

994 'Andy Goldsworthy: Two Autumns, 'Setagaya Art

Museum, Japan. 'Andy Goldsworthy: Stone Work in

America', travelling organized by Cheryl Haines,

Haines Gallery, San Francisco.

995 'Breath of Earth', San Jose Museum of Art, San

Jose, California. 'Andy Goldsworthy: Four Stones',

Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium. 'Black Stones, Red

Pools', Galerie Lelong, New York.

996 'Wood', Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California

997 'Andy Goldsworthy: Sheepfolds', Penrith Museum,

Cumbria, England

998 'Arches', Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal,

Quebec. 'Installation und Photographie', Springer &

Winckler Gallery, Germany

999 'La Danse du temps', La Coursive Scene Nationale,

France. 'Snowballs in Summer', Barbican Art Center,

London, England

2000 'River' Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 'Time',

Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England.

'Snowballs in Summer' Barbican Centre, London

2001 'Silent Spring', Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

2002 'Work from Scotland For California', Haines Gallery,

California. Des Moines Art Center, July 20 October

13th, 2002. Galerie Le long, Paris, France Haines

Gallery, San Francisco, California

2003 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York.

Museum of Contemorary Art, San Diego, California

Biography of Richard Long

945 Born June 2, in Bristol, England

962 he studied at west of England College of Art, Bristol, till 1965

964 Long was already making Earthworks and experimenting with the idea of impermanence (a theme that would inform his work throughout his career

966 Long studied at the St. Martins school of Art, London, under Anthony Caro and Philip King till 1968. While there he became closely associated with fellow student Hamish Fulton. (Long's use of walking as an art form was introduced as early as 1967)

968 Long had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Konrad Fischer in Dusseldorf in 1968

969 Exhibitions in Paris, Milan and New York! The same year Long was involved in a seminal exhibition of minimalist and conceptual works entitled 'When Attitude Becomes Form' at The Kunsthalle Bern. The artist made his first word- work for that exhibition.

969 Long created environmental works all around the world, documenting his walks with text, maps, and photographs. As Long began his walking and the presentation of his work in a gallery. Exhibition, Dwan Gallery in New York, Long walked a spiral on the floor with boots muddied from the soil of England

970 Long walked a spiral on the floor with boots muddied from soil of England (front cover) at the Dwan Gallery in New York.

971 Long participated in the 'Guggenheim International Award' exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum, New York.

972 Long exhibited in the Projects gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, (and again in 1982) Long was invited to participate in Documenta in Kassel

976 Long exhibited at the Venice Biennale
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980 Long began making new types of mud works using hand prints applied directly to the wall. He also constructed large lines and circles of stones, slate, and sticks, often collected on his walks or, in later years, from locations near the exhibition sites.

986 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum organised a major exhibited of Long's work from the 1970s and 1980's

988 Long was given a solo exhibition at Neue Galerie- Sommlung Ludwig, Aachen, in conjunction with his receipt of the Kunstpreis Aachen.

989 Long was awarded the prestigious Turner Prize in London. The ...

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